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Hugin

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2. I really noticed the effect during the holidays...
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 05:40 AM
3 hrs ago

Commenting on the lack of additional decoration in the stores. Some of which had gone all out for years. I speculated that it was a expense cutting measure and only resulted in more of the homogenization of everything.

Most chilling was the non-response of those who I was talking with, not even a “meh”. Only silence.

Is this creeping nihilism?

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